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Countdown 2010, All Eyes on Oryza: The Current Access and Benefits-Sharing Provisions of International Instruments Will Keep the 2010 Biodiversity Target Out of Reach

SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2010
The 2010 Biodiversity Target, which aims to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss, will not be achieved. The Convention on Biological Diversity (“CBD”) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (“ITPGR”)
Blake M. Mensing
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Assessing the Contribution of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Towards Organisational Biodiversity Footprints

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organisations play a key role in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, which are closely connected. Biodiversity footprinting has initially suggested that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may contribute to a large proportion of many organisations' biodiversity impacts.
Charlotte Maddinson, Sami El Geneidy, Maiju Peura, Janne Kotiaho, Joseph Bull   +4 more
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The Role of Biodiversity Footprinting Within the Nature‐Related Assessment, Disclosure, and Target‐Setting Landscape

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As awareness of business–nature interdependencies grows, organizations face increasing demands to assess and manage their nature‐related value chain impacts. Policies, standards, frameworks, and metrics are emerging to support impact measurement, disclosure, and target‐setting.
Brayshna Kundi, Sami El Geneidy, Janne S. Kotiaho   +2 more
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How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?

Conservation Letters, 2021
Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to which this was achieved, we used expert elicitation to estimate the number of bird and mammal ...
Friederike C. Bolam, Louise Mair, Marco Angelico, Thomas M. Brooks, Mark Burgman, Claudia Hermes, Michael Hoffmann, Rob W. Martin, Philip J.K. McGowan, Ana S.L. Rodrigues, Carlo Rondinini, James R.S. Westrip, Hannah Wheatley, Yuliana Bedolla‐Guzmán, Javier Calzada, Matthew F. Child, Peter A. Cranswick, Christopher R. Dickman, Birgit Fessl, Diana O. Fisher, Stephen T. Garnett, Jim J. Groombridge, Christopher N. Johnson, Rosalind J. Kennerley, Sarah R.B. King, John F. Lamoreux, Alexander C. Lees, Luc Lens, Simon P. Mahood, David P. Mallon, Erik Meijaard, Federico Méndez‐Sánchez, Alexandre Reis Percequillo, Tracey J. Regan, Luis Miguel Renjifo, Malin C. Rivers, Nicolette S. Roach, Lizanne Roxburgh, Roger J. Safford, Paul Salaman, Tom Squires, Ella Vázquez‐Domínguez, Piero Visconti, John C.Z. Woinarski, Richard P. Young, Stuart H.M. Butchart   +45 more
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Nature Protection as a Strategy? Strategic Objectives and Dynamic Capabilities in Corporate Biodiversity Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why and how firms address biodiversity loss. Using a multiple case study of 10 large food and agriculture firms, we analyze 35 interviews and secondary data to show that firms pursue strategic objectives through biodiversity management beyond compliance or philanthropy.
Myriam Celine Rapior, Timo Busch
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Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel, Sini Laari, Asta Salmi   +2 more
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A Typology of Corporate Actions for a Nature‐Positive Future

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the global goal of halting and reversing biodiversity loss requires a step up in corporate action and accountability. This includes addressing indirect, diffuse or historical impacts on nature across the value chain—forming a complex landscape of potential actions for businesses as they develop their corporate nature strategy.
Ashley H. Y. Bang, Thomas B. White, Leon Bennun, Hollie Booth, Talitha Bromwich, Joseph W. Bull, Éilish Farrelly, Rachel N. Martin, E. J. Milner‐Gulland, Malcolm Starkey, Laura J. Sonter   +10 more
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Biotechnology in the Context of the Convention on Biological Diversity: Review of the Implementation of Article 19 of this Agreement

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2010
Modern biotechnology is one of the most important technological tools nowadays, and its developmentinvolves discussions related to food and environmental safety of their products.
Mônica Cibele Amâncio, Ruy de Araujo Caldas   +1 more
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Sustainability Reporting on Biodiversity and Ecosystems in the European Forest‐Based Sector: An Institutional Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) emphasises the importance of corporate sustainability reporting on biodiversity and ecosystems, particularly specified in the European Sustainability Reporting Standard E4 (ESRS E4).
Andreas Barth, Tobias Stern, Kurt Christian Schuster, Lea Ranacher, Stefanie Linser   +4 more
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Ignorance et argument scientifique

Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies
This article analyzes the use of scientific arguments in international negotiations on the status of Digital Sequence Information (DSI), notably at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food
Pierre Walckiers
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